Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well squatted photographers, fidgeting with flash bulbs. Sitting in every seat, almost as visibly present as the Congressmen, spectators, Capitol policemen, messengers, newsreel cameramen, were tensions, anxieties, fears, great expectations. The bill before the committee, the Lend-Lease bill, H.R. 1776, had brought all these emotions to a focus. It was possible, if these emotions focused strongly enough, that they might set fire to something-even to the bill it self. But the cool legislative probability was that, after a week or so of tumult and shouting, the bill would pass in slightly altered form...
...patient service of his God, and his vicissitudes. The pre-war era is largely consumed by watered-Dickensi-an childhood episodes; during the post war years two children marry stodgily, and the younger daughter makes bad use of a roadhouse, is killed in an auto wreck. But the focus...
...amorphous new Navy, measured in hundreds of thousands of non-existent tons; a new Army with millions of men as yet uncalled, unhoused, untrained, in scores of unfinished cantonments-all these were paper monsters, as vast and vague as the future itself. Still lacking was a point of focus-a fact, an incident, a report sharp enough to be seen, simple enough to be grasped...
Unhappily for defense (and for the millions who worried about it), most of the points of focus were in places where something was wrong. Many things were indeed wrong with the hastily conceived, prodigiously swollen, still disorganized defense program. But not everything was wrong...
Collared Bottles. One point of focus last week was on the U. S. aluminum supply. This spot gleamed like a skillet in the sun. As usual, 1) something was wrong, 2) the immediate point was a small spot on a large fact. The fact: the U. S. must have more aluminum (for airplanes, engines, ships, trucks, many & many another defense item) than it has ever before produced...